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L. RAPPAPO RT. MEANS FOR SECURING GLASS ELEVATOR CUPS T0 BELTS. No. 372,329.

N PETERS. Ph'ololilbograyhu Washington. n.c.

UNITED STATES PATENT Erica.

LOUIS RAPPAPORT, OF BRESLAU, SILESIA, PRUSSIA, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR OF ON E-HALF TO .I. EBSTEIN SOHNE, OF SAME PLACE.

MEANS FOR SECURiNG GLASS ELEVATOR-CUPS TO BELTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 372,329, dated November 1, 1887.

Application filed December 3l, 1885. Serial No. 187,291. (No model.) Patented in Germany November 13, 1885, No. 35,542; in Luxeinburg November 30, 1885, No. 613; in France December 4, 1885, No. 172,723, and in NorwayDecember 31, 1885, No. 520.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LoUIs RAPPAPORT, of Breslau, in the Province of Silesia, of the Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire, have 5 invented new and useful Improvements in Means for Fastening Elevator-Cups to Belts, (for which I have obtained the following patents: Germany, Letters Patent No. 35,542, November 13, .1885; France, Letters Patent :0 No. 172,723, December 4, 1885; Luxemburg, Letters Patent No. (313, November 30, 1885; Norway, Letters Patent No. 520/85, December 31, 1885,) of which the following isaspecification.

My invention relates to improvements in the means for fastening glass or other ceramic elevator-cups to belts. I fasten the cups to the belt by holes (1, made on the back side, which is intended to be fastened against the belt.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 shows the cup fastened to the belt; Fig. 2, the general construction of an elevator with such cups.

2 5 Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views;

In the drawings, a is the belt; I), the cup; 0, the strings going through the holes d,- d, the holes.

The fastening is obtained by strings c, instead of screws. These strings are drawn through the holes d of the cup and through corresponding holes of the belta, in the manner shown in Fig. 1. By their smooth surface these cups are exceedingly well adapted 5 for the purpose, as every adherence of the lifted material is avoided, and in delivering no residue is left. In consequence of this and of the manner in which they are laced on the belt, the working of the elevator is greatly o facilitated. There can be no tendency to chemical influence, since there is no metal fastening employed, and hence no rusting of the parts, leather lacing being used to fasten the cups to the belt.

The cups are of a material which has no tendency to wear and tear, and will last almostunlimitedly.

I am aware that prior to my invention elevator-cups have been made with appliances to fasten them on their respective belts by means of metal screws or otherwise. I therefore do not claim such a combination, broadly; but

What Iclaim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

An endless belt having glass or other ceramic cups secured thereto by strings interlaced through holes in the cups and through corresponding holes in the belt, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

. LOUIS RAPPAPORI.

\Vitnesses:

ERNST VENTUR, CARL SrooK. 

